SCRANTON — A fire destroyed a 20-foot-long mobile trailer parked in an otherwise vacant lot in the city’s Hill Section early Saturday.

Fire crews responded to the 1400 block of Vine Street at about 12:30 a.m. for reports of a fully engulfed trailer, 911 dispatchers said. The blaze also damaged a pickup truck, and the heat from the fire melted the phone and cable box on a nearby home, acting Fire Chief Patrick DeSarno said.

Though people do live in the trailer, no one was inside it at the time of the fire, Chief DeSarno said. Officials are investigating the cause of the fire.

— MICHAEL IORFINO

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